March 28, 1981 (Saturday)
- Phil Mahre became the first American to ever win the world championship in skiing.
- Garuda Indonesia Flight 206 was hijacked and flown from Indonesia to Thailand.
- Born: Gareth David-Lloyd, Welsh TV actor (Ianto Jones on Torchwood), in Bettws, Newport
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Famous quotes containing the word march:
“At the earliest ending of winter,
In March, a scrawny cry from outside
Seemed like a sound in his mind.
He knew that he heard it,
A bird’s cry, at daylight or before,
In the early March wind.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)